Bottom line, a survey tool like LimeSurvey is an easy source for perspective (and intelligence) on your business relationships. There’s no need to stay in the dark." Tom Klein in his article at Feedgrowth.com

We made it (almost)!! Thanks to you we managed to be one of the top 10 nominated projects in the category 'Best Project for the Enterprise' for the 2008 Community Choice Awards on sf.net

Now we need your help once again to do the last and winning step: Vote for us in the category'Best Project for the Enterprise' for the Sourceforge.net 2008 community choice awards. Winning this award would give LimeSurvey a great boost in publicity, and help us grow. To vote, you must be registered and logged in at SourceForge and then you'll be only three mouse-clicks away to contribute to the final success of your favorite survey tool!

ps: A few members of the LimeSurvey team happen to attend OSCON, where the winners will be announced. Wouldn't it be amazing...?

The LimeSurvey project announces LimeService, an online survey service based on the LimeSurvey Software. This service aims at users who don't want to or don't have the possibility to install LimeSurvey on their own server.

For the last couple months the LimeSurvey project has done a lot of self-imposed security audits on the LimeSurvey code base. (Thank you to the Ubuntu Server team for pointing out first issues and giving us a head start.)During this process several security issues have been fixed in the source code which include:

Issues where variable manipulation was possible when register_globals in PHP is activated

Session Data injection & manipulation

Permanent & non-permanent XSS-issues where an attacker could try to gain access by injecting own javacript code into the application

Session related issues where a possible attacker could take over the session and/or gain higher access privileges

Most of these issue were already fixed for 1.71 stable. (Affected versions: 1.70+ (all builds) and older)

On top of that we fixed two moderate issues for the current 1.71 release which were

Two XSS attacks for security flaws in the IE6 browser.

Session Fixation attack

Thank you to security advisor Michal Tresner for reporting.

Exploits in the Wild: No known exploits yet. We strongly recommend to update as long it stays that way! Solution: Update to the latest LimeSurvey 1.71+ Build 5147 or later version available from http://www.limesurvey.org

The German Linux magazine will publish a special issue on the 12th of July (tomorrow as of this writing). This issue about web software topics will sport an article about LimeSurvey named 'Refreshingly Easy' (roughly translated from German). It contains a tutorial how to use LimeSurvey to create your own online survey and that way you can find out more about your potential customers. If you are German and want to get a fresh introduction to LimeSurvey don't hesitate and buy this magazine online or at your next kiosk. We are very proud since this is the first time a magazine (you know: the one with real paper) is writing about us - expect more to come.

btw: The French Linux Magazine happened to be the sponsor of the last years Trophées du Libre where LimeSurvey made first place in the 'Business Management' software contest. Thank you for this support!

This new 1.71 release of LimeSurvey marks the last four months of continous work and development where numerous fixes and small enhancement have been done in the code since version 1.70(+).

Not only we added a few new features, like optional PDF generation of surveys, but also our users helped us with 6 (six!) new translations - some of them are full translations, like Korean (which has been created by a South Korean Cyber Crime Police Unit - would you believe that?), and some of them are just sprouting, like Persian. Thank you very much to everyone helping keeping thetranslationsup to date and adding new ones!

It's also very important to mention that we did alot of security audits on the source code so LimeSurvey is even more safe to run and use. We strongly recommend to update to this new version to get the safest, best and most stable version.

Also we will continue to release weekly Plus versions to always be able to deliver the latest translations and fixes as soon as possible. However new features will be expected only for LimeSurvey 2 which is already in the making and where a first internal alpha development step is reached. If you want to help with design or development on LimeSurvey 2, now is the right moment to jump in!

The LimeSurvey team had a very exciting last year and we will continue to keep you excited for the things to come. The next official release LimeSurvey 1.71 is almost done and is planned for June 2nd.

Now we need your help: Vote for us in the category 'Best Project for the Enterprise' for the Sourceforge.net 2008 community choice awards. Winning this award would not only be very motivating, but would also create alot of publicity and helps us for the future. What you have to do (first you must be registered on sf.net) is to log in and you'll be three mouse-clicks away to contribute to the success of your favorite survey tool!